“Good morning! I’m on strike!” shouted McDonald’s worker Darryl Young this morning. Fast food workers across New York City staged a one-day strike today, calling for a raise and an end to anti-union retaliation.

Mario Medina wore a union button for 2.5 hours before his Las Vegas employer, Station Casinos, fired him. He’s one of a dozen fired in what the Culinary Union says is the biggest organizing drive underway.

When the eight-year-old daughter of a striking Palermo’s Pizza factory worker tried to deliver a petition with 15,000 signatures pledging to boycott the Milwaukee-based frozen pizza company, she was turned away by police.

Perseverance paid off for the Farm Labor Organizing Committee in North Carolina as Reynolds finally agreed to meet with the union. FLOC has demanded since 2008 the tobacco giant discuss tobacco pickers' abysmal work conditions.

Every year the U.S. State Department grades countries on human trafficking, but it would do well to look at its own J-1 visa program, which one organizer called “the ultimate captive guestworker program.”

Target workers in Valley Stream, Long Island vote on union representation tomorrow. The election is the first at any of Target’s 1,755 stores and a win would crack the solidly anti-union wall surrounding big-box retail.